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Nordic Waterproofing Holding AB: Nordic Waterproofing acquires 51% of Gauris B. V. in the Netherlands, a company distributing lining solutions for ponds and pools
16:00 / 4 February 2021 Nordic Waterproofing Press release
The Nordic Waterproofing Group has acquired 51% of Gauris B.V. ("Gauris"), a company in the Netherlands. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Heerenveen. Gauris is a trading and prefabricating company for lining, supplying the segments ponds, pools, roofing, water storage, environmental solutions and civil projects. They offer almost all kind of lining products like EPDM, FPP, LDPE, HDPE, FPO/TPO, geotextiles and PVC with the Netherlands as their main market. Gauris has 7 employees and an annual turnover of ca
EUR 1 m.
Gauris was founded in 2018 by Annemieke Aal and Martijn Riewald. The company has a broad offering with several materials and has grown and taken market share through both direct and internet sales through their web-shop. The company does not only supply products but also advice, training, technical support and installations.
"The acquisition of Gauris is an opportunity to further grow the existing business but also expand the Distripond concept, acquired in 2019, to more markets than Belgium." says Thomas Zipfel, Head of SealEco. "This acquisition gives us a good position in the Netherlands for further growth within this segment."
"Gauris has had a good growth since we founded the company and this is a natural step to increase the speed of our development," says Annemieke Aal and Martijn Riewald, founders of Gauris. "We are pleased to join the Nordic Waterproofing Group and have a strong owner with a long-term focus and good understanding of our business" Annemieke and Martijn continues.
Nordic Waterproofing Holding AB's Swedish subsidiary SealEco AB has acquired 51 percent of the shares in Gauris. The seller is mainly PMH Investments B.V. and the acquisition is financed through Nordic Waterproofing's existing credit facilities. The acquisition is not expected to have a material effect on Nordic Waterproofing's earnings per share in 2021.
"Nordic Waterproofing's strategy is to broaden our product and service offerings in the relevant European markets and with Gauris we take a logical step to build on the acquisition of Distripond in 2019. We appreciate that the founders, also being the company's management, continue as shareholders and we welcome our new colleagues in the Netherlands to Nordic Waterproofing" says Martin Ellis, President and CEO of the Nordic Waterproofing Group.
The information was submitted, through the agency of the contact person below, for publication on 4 February 2021 at 16:00 CET.
Per-Olof Schrewelius, CFO and investor relations
E-mail: pos@nordicwaterproofing.com
Nordic Waterproofing is one of the leading providers in the waterproofing market in northern Europe. The Company provides high-quality products and solutions for waterproofing in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom and Germany. Nordic Waterproofing also provides installation services through wholly-owned subsidiaries In Finland and through part-owned franchise companies in Denmark. The Company markets its products and solutions under more than ten brands, all with an extensive heritage, most of which are among the most established and well-recognized brands in waterproofing in their respective markets, such as Mataki, Trebolit, Phønix Tag Materialer, Kerabit, Nortett, SealEco, Distri Pond, SPT-Painting, Taasinge Elementer, RVT and Veg Tech. Nordic Waterproofing is listed in the Mid Cap segment on Nasdaq Stockholm with the stock ticker NWG.
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There's nothing quite as powerful as stating the exact nature of your work right on the front of your cards. These self-explanatory Business Cards for Proofreaders and Editors show potential employers the laborious, intricate nature of the work – proving it's worth every penny.
I used a text about the nature of editing and proof reading then filled it with spelling mistakes! I thought it would be a cute way to instantly show anyone receiving this card that editing is a highly skilled job that takes patience and skill a simple spell check just won't do!


If your bookshelves are looking empty, or your "must read" list growing short - never fear! Visit the Pacific Grove Public Library arcade from 10 am until 4 pm to find wonderful buys in books, puzzles, CDs and more.
All proceeds benefit the Library's community of readers and learners. If you're a member of the Friends, you get a nice discount. And yes, we're happy to have you become a member at the Sale!
If you would like to donate books, CDs, or puzzles, you may make your donation at the circulation desk at the front of the library. Donated books need to be resalable (very dirty, discolored, mildewed, damaged or detached covers, old text books, old computer books, etc. are not suitable for resale). Please don't donate books that you wouldn't consider buying yourself. Puzzles are especially welcome! Thank you.


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Q: The executable was signed with invalid entitlement Can any one help me why giving following error with installing Appstore distribution build/release into my iphone.

Errors: The executable was signed with invalid entitlements. The entitlements specified in your application's Code Signing Entitlements file do not match those specified in your provisioning profile. 0xE8008016

When i install build with AdHoc distribution every thing working fine.
I have enabled following services in provisioning profile/ App Id
 1. App group
 2. Game center
 3. In app purchase
 4. Push notification

I have on following capabilities in Xcode
 1. App group
 2. Game center
 3. In app purchase
 4. Push notification
Entitlements file -
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I have integration Share extension Application in my project while consists following properties
I have enabled following services in provisioning profile/ App Id for Share extension App
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 2. Game center
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I have on following capabilities in Xcode for Share extension app
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 2. Game center
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Entitlements file for Share extension app  -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"   "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
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Please suggest me what is problem in this process  ….
Thanks You

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It's February and we're now halfway through our Off-Season Base Build Program. Our local, in-house program of 45 Denver-based athletes are now beginning to feel the fitness gains! We've met 4 days a week, most weeks, for the last 12 weeks for indoor gym sessions, trainer sessions, and testing. A solid base of aerobic and strength training has been established in the first half of the program. We're now prepared to build off the basic fitness and add some appropriate amounts of higher intensity work in the form of faster more powerful movements in the gym (plyometrics) as well as shorter and more powerful intervals on the bike in the sound half of the program.
This very same 24-week program is available as a downloadable training plan on Training Peaks ( 24-week Base Build Training Plan ). We also have a more condensed 12-week Base Build Training Plan available to those that prefer a shorter, faster build of early season base fitness. Both versions allow you to follow my programming on your own where ever you live!
Block 4 makes up weeks 13-16 in the 24-weeks of our Base Build Program. You can read more about previous blocks from links at top.


New Delhi, India. A place of many extremes and opposites. Slow, noisy, dirty, frustrating, poverty stricken... maybe.... but there are so many happy, smiling faces. Children come out to wave as you drive past. People everywhere are keen and eager to help, they can't do enough for you. It all says so much. India has one of the richest economies in the world, and yet so many live in extreme poverty that we can hardly comprehend. It's a huge country and one day I would love to go for more than a week, when I'm not working, and take time to look around at this beautiful place.


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Q: How to build an chrome extension like Google Hangouts The Google Hangouts extension has a panel that shows up outside of the Chrome UI.
It is sort of like a notification but not. I don't see anything in the Extension Developer Docs that describes an API to make this work. Is this a Google-specific hack they're doing? Is there something in the experimental APIs that I'm missing?

A: It is an options of chrome.windows.create. Make sure you set type to panel.
chrome.windows.create({ url: 'https://mobile.twitter.com/', type: 'panel' });

panel may not be supported on all platforms and you may have to specifically enable panels in Chrome Flags chrome://flags/#enable-panels.


Pursuant to the Corporate Governance Charter, the members of the SLT are deemed to avoid, to the extent possible, to perform any actions, to defend certain positions, and to pursue certain interests, if this would conflict, or would give the impression to conflict, with the interests of the Company. If such conflicts of interest would occur, the concerned member of the SLT shall immediately inform the CEO hereof, who will in turn inform the chairman of the board of directors. Transactions and/or business relationships between members of the SLT and one or more companies of the Telenet Group should in any case take place at normal market conditions.


A Dawes made 1796 pattern British heavy cavalry trooper's sabre with 95%+ Waterloo Provenance.
Dawes modèle britannique fait 1796 soldat de la cavalerie lourde sabre avec 95% + Provenance Waterloo.
1) I bought this sword at a general auction in England. The auction house did not know what it was; they reported to me it came from a deceased's estate. So many swords proclaiming to come from Waterloo are not and have been engineered to appear that way by unscrupulous dealers. However, dealers always make sure their items are well described and would ensure such an item as this was sold by a militaria auction house (who are not the experts they always claim to be). So this was not a dealer item.
2) The blade is not rusted (except a little near the hilt where enough gap exists from the scabbard). The rusting to the hilt and scabbard is commensurate. The scabbard is not a more recent addition / replacement; they have been together for many years.
3) The troop and trooper markings on the hilt and scabbard are genuine. It is almost impossible to reproduce the process of rust aging, so the markings are authentic.
4) The blade is marked to Dawes (Birmingham) on the spine (together with the relevant two "B" or bend test marks) dating the sabre's manufacture to around 1802. The blade also has the correct Crown with arrow inspection mark (see Robson's Swords of the British Army plate 14 on page 23), which means it was used by a regular trooper, not a trooper with the yeomanry (reserve) cavalry.
5) The blade point has been converted to a spear point. The vast majority of 1796 P HC sabres were ground down to a spear point just before Waterloo. However, crucially, the langets have not been removed and / or the disc guard cut back / folded down as happened soon after Waterloo. Consequently, this sabre ceased to be in active service at or just after Waterloo.
6) The troop and trooper numbers are different on the sabre's hilt and the scabbard. The hilt shows trooper 13 of B troop, the scabbard trooper 64 of E troop; the later proving it was from a large main front line regiment. With the British heavy cavalry regiments suffering up to 90% casualty rates, many of their sabres lay strewn across the battlefield. When they were collected up afterwards, government owned swords such as this one were placed in the nearest available correct also fallen scabbard without reference to the troop / trooper numbers.
7) Because the troop / trooper numbers were never corrected, the sword was not put back into service. As the British heavy cavalry regiments took such massive casualties, it took regiments involved in Waterloo a long time after to come back up to strength. Many swords with damage were replaced, plus this pattern of sword was superceded 6 years after Waterloo.
8) This 1796 has some damage to the cutting edge near the tip; one nick and some grinding wear, commensurate with carving down infantry as the Union Brigade (which this sabre likely served) did. The Household Brigade, the other heavy cavalry brigade at Waterloo, were involved mostly against French Cavalry and the damage to their weapons would therefore normally be different. Union Brigade swords mostly bearing signs of hacking / carving up infantry, Household Brigade full on thrusting damage.
I have no doubt in my mind this sword comes from the Battle of Waterloo, the 5% stated doubt is simply margin of error as very few swords of that time were regiment marked, so I can not state it as such with 100% certainty.
The grip has lost 75% of the leather covering and the wood base has one or two worm holes; the grip could be replaced, left as it is or augmented with a black silicone paste. The blade is in good order except for battle damage as noted before. The blade is a little loose in the hilt but this can be easily corrected by simply pushing two slivers of wood down the side of the blade into the grip as most dealers would do and say no more on; I would prefer to keep the sabre as it is. The scabbard is generally good with some rider dents to the shoe / drag area as to be expected, plus has lost one throat screw. There is an unusual dent to the front of the scabbard near to throat which I presume is battle damage. The sabre sheathes very well. Further photographs available upon request.


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Home Special Features Guest Commentary Disappointed That the Governor Rejected Plan to Reduce School Furloughs
Disappointed That the Governor Rejected Plan to Reduce School Furloughs
'HONOLULU — Hawaii State Board of Education Chairman Garrett Toguchi issued the following statement today regarding negotiations to reduce the number of public school furloughs:'
I'm disappointed that Governor Lingle and her advisers have rejected a supplemental agreement by the Board of Education, the Department of Education, and the Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA) to reduce the number of public school furloughs. After hours of sharing information and answering questions, it was confirmed today that the Governor will not support the current agreement.
The Board, the Education Department and the HSTA offered a reasonable agreement that would have eliminated furlough Fridays this school year. The plan would have restored five furlough days with $35 million from the Rainy Day fund, converted two teacher planning days into instructional days, and ended the school year three days earlier to minimize disruptions to students and parents. The agreement also would have increased Hawaii's chances of winning some $75 million in federal Race to the Top grants. One key criteria of the program, whose application is due Jan. 19, requires states to make education funding a priority.
The current agreement is fiscally responsible, and a viable solution that puts students' interests first.
While this is a devastating setback for public education, the Governor's staff willingness to meet again and devise a new proposal is encouraging. However, given the urgency of the matter, it is imperative that we come up with a workable proposal that gets students back to school before time runs out.
'Garrett Toguchi is with the Board of Education'
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Low Emissivity or Low E glass is a type of glass that helps repel Ultra Violet Rays from entering a space. They are ideal for helping to keep a room cool during hot days or helping to trap day time heat in cooler climates.
Low E are so advanced that they will let other rays through but block harmful ones by actual filtering the solar light spectrum that enters a building. The Low E coating on the glass is thinner than a human hair but is a very potent light filter.


What a beautiful weekend it has been here in Vermont. Absolutely perfect!
I have not listened to the radio all weekend and have spent alot of time outside!
Charlie (my 80lbs of chocolate lab) and I spent Saturdy morning in the hollow in front of our house. We went for a yomp (british slang for a bloody good walk!) for a couple of hours and the colours were absolutely spectalcular. The sky was blue and it was just perfect yomping weather!
I then watched Callum at his football jamboree. He is such a grown up little boy now; running around the pitch chasing the ball! Euan has spent the past 6 weeks being the coach and it was superb to see them out there together doing what they like to do best! Funny to see them together like that as they are such peas in a pod!
We then spent the afternoon doing jobs and tinkering around the house. It was nice to spend some time at home with my boys. The one negative of my job is that weekends are often spent with clients!
Today started with another yomp for Charlie and I; another perfect morning in the hollow. We then spent the afternoon with my friend Melissa Brott who took some pictures. For Euan's Birthday in July, Callum and I gave him a certificate for a family photo session at Indian Brook which has been one of our favourite finds here in Essex. I am looking forward to seeing the pictures. We then had our first walk through a corn maze at Lang Farms - not a typical English past time!
To top off a perfect weekend, we stopped off to get ingredients for Callum's favourite - a sushi dinner. Euan made me my favourite Hiyayakko and we had quite a feast!
Icing on the cake, I had someone who would like to see one of my listings this week so all in all a perfect weekend!


The Southlands Tasmanian Devil Male is a great addition to the Southlands Replicas range of Australian animals. This tassie devil figurine is sculpted with it's mouth open wide revealing sharp teeth. Designed and sculpted in Australia, this native animal has been completed with a hand-painted finish.
Southlands 00006 Tasmanian Devil, Released 2017.
Very good, I bought 2 so it look fighting each other, great collect for Australian marsupials.


Every CTO I know has heard of Vivek Kundra, former CTO of the District of Columbia. We have all been following his accomplishments in transforming the technology program in DC and have watched in excitement as more and more capabilities have been rolled out to serve the city and its citizens. We have followed reports of bold moves he put in place to ensure technology programs deliver. We have read about his new approaches to technology portfolio management and watched as he discussed the leap ahead he delivered to his enterprise by his audacious, courageous use of Google Apps and other cloud-based solutions.
If you are not one of those familiar with Vivek, here is a short bio: Vivek Kundra was the CTO for the District of Columbia where he led an organization of over 600 staff that provided technology services and leadership for 86 agencies, 38,000 employees, residents, businesses, and 14 million annual visitors. He brought to the role of CTO a diverse record that combined technology and public policy experience in government, private industry, and academia. Previously, Vivek served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the first dual cabinet role in the state's history. In the private sector, Vivek led technology companies serving national and international customers. Earlier he served as Director of Infrastructure Technology for Arlington, Virginia. He also taught classes on emerging and disruptive technologies at the University of Maryland. Since Vivek became District CTO, he has been honored with major IT awards. In 2008, the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium recognized him among outstanding IT innovators. In addition, InfoWorld Magazine named Vivek among its "CTO 25".
I recently saw Vivek at a meeting of the Washington Area CTO Roundtable, an informal collective of area CTOs led by Yuvi Kochar, CTO of the Washington Post Company. Before the meeting we chatted about mashup technologies (including his Apps for Democracy contest and also JackBe). During the meeting Vivek discussed several aspects of his innovative efforts to transform the District's information technology infrastructure. A point that struck me was his leadership through principles. Three key ones he articulated were: 1) Leveraging commercial technology, 2) Driving transparency, and 3) Rethinking notions of IT governance.
Vivek and I just finished a phone call where we discussed these and other items in more detail. Here is a bit more on his approach.
1) Leveraging commercial technology: Commercial radios and cell phones allowed a rapid enhancement of the tactical communications infrastructure of the DC workforce, including the police workforce. Police squad cars are also now equipped with commercial, but toughened, laptops. Commercial web technology has been leveraged in ways that leaped ahead of old clunky office automation and also enable rapid development and mashups.
2) Driving transparency and engaging citizens: Technology impediments to information access and information sharing were eliminated in ways that enable citizens to see how government decisions are being made. Data was also exposed in ways that enabled mashups and agile programing/development. Examples include DCs digital public squareand Apps for Democracy efforts.
3) Rethinking notions of IT governance: Totally new, innovative ways to manage IT portfolios were created and used to ensure all stakeholders could evaluate the technology program and better make informed decisions on when to terminate programs and where to invest more money. Chief among these innovations was an approach to portfolio management that replicates a stock market trading floor. More important, however is the relentless focus on performance and innovation to support performance. Beside rethinking these notions of governance Vivek also took measures to smartly watch/reduce/reprioritize IT costs.
I asked Vivek for thoughts that might be relevant to technologists who have set their sites on careers where they can deliver results. Many of us would like to follow in his footsteps. I wondered, if there is a particular computer programing language we should all be learning now? Should we be diving into Python? That's hot now. And what about databases? MySQL and Hadoop are all the rage. The thoughts I got back from Vivek were incredibly insightful and far more relevant than the simplistic question I asked.
V: Technology is important, and we do need to know technology. But in these very exciting times where Moore's law pushes us all forward it is actually more important to be able to quickly learn new technology rather than focus on one and only one. This is the beauty of the new world of technology. There is always something to learn. We should also always remember that the reason to learn is the mission. To an enterprise CTO, technology by itself is worthless. Technology only has value if it addresses business problems and drives business success. Therefore technologists must have an ability to translate between the worlds of mission needs and technology and need an ability to rapidly learn and deeply understand both.
V: The DC CTO site at http://octo.dc.gov provides links to many of the ongoing activities of the office and for those who would like more on the models that produce the results we link to policies, guidelines and procedures. We also provide information on how our governance process works. But additionally we host visits to our office by interested parties and have begun blogging about them. In another effort we hope will help move the models forward we are pressing ahead with plans to turn our stock market approach to portfolio management into an open model and will open source the code that makes it work, which should help drive more innovation there.
V: You can look for innovation many places, but remembering that necessity is the mother of invention you should keep an eye open for places that innovate because they really need to. I always keep an eye on the developing world and am so incredibly amazed at the tech innovation there. Enterprise IT does not mean that every program and project must be delivered with huge budgets and huge staffs and the incredible innovations coming out of the developing world prove that time and time again. I'm excited and enthused about developments like cell phone voting in Estonia, electronic census that works in Chili, fishing villages around the world using instant direct data to plan movement. Innovation occurs many places, but some of the greatest lessons for innovation are coming from the developing world.
V: Standards are important, but if a standard gets in the way of innovation kill it. Use standards that enable innovation. This is the role of the CTO.
Vivek also offered thoughts on social networks.
V: In seeking ways to make your cycles of innovation move faster, never underestimate the power of social networking tools and the networks you can build with them. Facebook is the example most talked about but there are many others including networks built around ecommerce like eBay and Amazon. I believe we should not only embrace them to enable the power of social networking but to help us leverage, in a large way, the IT infrastructure of these platforms. The new generations today are making maximum use of these platforms and I view this as a very optimistic point.
As for me, I view the results of Vivek Kundra and his models as optimistic points. The great thing about being a CTO is the learning never stops in this field and Vivek is a great teacher we should all be learning from.


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org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
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org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:294)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:225)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)
at
org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter.autodetect(MBeanExporter.java:880)
at
org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter.autodetectBeans(MBeanExporter.java:842)
at
org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter.registerBeans(MBeanExporter.java:521)
at
org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter.afterPropertiesSet(MBeanExporter.java:413)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1514)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1452)

This is my pom.xml file

com.thomson
wca
4.0

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<artifactId>wca-index-server</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Index Server</name>

<dependencies>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-asm -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-asm</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.2.RELEASE</version>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-asm</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-test -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.2.RELEASE</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.thomson</groupId>
        <artifactId>wca-constants</artifactId>
        <version>${wca.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.thomson</groupId>
        <artifactId>common_util</artifactId>
        <version>${wca.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.thomson</groupId>
        <artifactId>wca-legacy-normalization</artifactId>
        <version>${wca.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.thomson</groupId>
        <artifactId>wca-normal-top-level</artifactId>
        <version>${wca.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.thomson</groupId>
        <artifactId>wca-client-old</artifactId>
        <version>${wca.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.thomson</groupId>
        <artifactId>wca-client-new</artifactId>
        <version>${wca.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.thomson</groupId>
        <artifactId>wca-index-manager</artifactId>
        <version>${wca.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- <dependency> <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId> <artifactId>wca-api</artifactId>
        <version>${project.version}</version> <type>test-jar</type> <scope>test</scope>
        <exclusions> <exclusion> <groupId>commons-vfs</groupId> <artifactId>commons-vfs</artifactId>
        </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency> -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
        <artifactId>${oracle.client.artifact}</artifactId>
        <version>${oracle.client.version}</version>
        <scope>${oracle.client.scope}</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
        <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.4</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javaee-glassfish</groupId>
        <artifactId>javaee-glassfish</artifactId>
        <version>5</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.framework.version}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.framework.version}</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.2</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>

    <finalName>wca</finalName>

    <plugins>
        <!-- Adding tomcat 7 plugin to run the project within eclipse and local -->
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <path>/</path>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.6.6</version>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.2-beta-2</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>make-assembly</id>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>attached</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
                <descriptors>
                    <descriptor>src/main/assembly/assembly-1.1.0-index-server-deploy-package.xml</descriptor>
                </descriptors>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>

</build>

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>jetty-wrap</id>
        <activation>
            <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
        </activation>

        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <configuration>
                        <scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>
                        <tmpDir>${jetty.tmpDir}</tmpDir>
                        <contextPath>/wca</contextPath>
                        <stopKey>naynowtuwunow</stopKey>
                        <stopPort>9998</stopPort>

                        <requestLog
                            implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.NCSARequestLog">
                            <filename>target/yyyy_mm_dd.request.log</filename>
                            <retainDays>90</retainDays>
                            <append>true</append>
                            <extended>false</extended>
                            <logTimeZone>GMT</logTimeZone>
                        </requestLog>
                        <systemProperties>
                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>base.directory</name>
                                <value>${basedir}</value>
                            </systemProperty>
                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>env</name>
                                <value>${env}</value>
                            </systemProperty>

                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>com.sun.management.jmxremote</name>
                                <value></value>
                            </systemProperty>
                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>com.sun.management.jmxremote.port</name>
                                <value>9876</value>
                            </systemProperty>
                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>com.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl</name>
                                <value>false</value>
                            </systemProperty>
                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>com.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate</name>
                                <value>false</value>
                            </systemProperty>

                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>app.home</name>
                                <value>d:/wca</value>
                            </systemProperty>
                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>app.log.dir</name>
                                <value>target/logs/IndexClient</value>
                            </systemProperty>
                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>app.comp</name>
                                <value>IndexClient</value>
                            </systemProperty>
                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>app.env</name>
                                <value>${env}</value>
                            </systemProperty>

                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>com.mchange.v2.c3p0.management.ManagementCoordinator</name>
                                <value>com.mchange.v2.c3p0.management.NullManagementCoordinator</value>
                            </systemProperty>

                            <systemProperty>
                                <name>jetty.port</name>
                                <value>9090</value>
                            </systemProperty>
                        </systemProperties>

                    </configuration>
                    <dependencies>
                        <dependency>
                            <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
                            <artifactId>geronimo-j2ee_1.4_spec</artifactId>
                            <version>1.0</version>
                            <scope>provided</scope>
                        </dependency>
                    </dependencies>

                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <id>start-jetty</id>
                            <phase>test-compile</phase>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>deploy-war</goal>
                            </goals>
                            <configuration>
                                <scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>
                                <daemon>true</daemon>
                            </configuration>
                        </execution>
                        <execution>
                            <id>stop-jetty</id>
                            <phase>test</phase>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>stop</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>

                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>

    </profile>
</profiles>

<reporting>
    <plugins>

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
                <xmlOutputDirectory>
                    ${project.build.directory}/findbugs-reports
                </xmlOutputDirectory>
                <threshold>high</threshold>
                <effort>Max</effort>
                <excludeFilterFile>findbugs-exclude.xml</excludeFilterFile>
                <includeFilterFile>findbugs-include.xml</includeFilterFile>
                <!-- <visitors> -->
                <!-- FindDeadLocalStores,UnreadFields,FindUncalledPrivateMethods, SQL_BAD_RESULTSET_ACCESS -->
                <!-- </visitors> -->
                <!-- <omitVisitors> -->
                <!-- FindDeadLocalStores,UnreadFields -->
                <!-- </omitVisitors> -->
                <onlyAnalyze>com.thomson.*</onlyAnalyze>
                <!-- <pluginList>/libs/fb-contrib/fb-contrib-2.8.0.jar</pluginList> -->
                <debug>true</debug>
                <relaxed>true</relaxed>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <targetJdk>1.6</targetJdk>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

    </plugins>
</reporting>

<properties>
    <jetty.daemon.mode>false</jetty.daemon.mode>
</properties>


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The Earth is a magnificent ball of incredible, intriguing, and interesting masses of land and water wonders. From mountains to seas, oceans, rainforests, gulfs, and others, more terms belong to different types of bodies of water. One of the most common yet undeniably breathtaking freshwater habitats in the world is the lake. For many, lakes might seem like a typical fresh body of water, the same as rivers and streams. Yet, they are marvelous in their own ways and have features and characteristics that are pretty different and unique compared to other bodies of water. Many people may be wondering what attributes define a lake, but to figure that out, we must first break down what a lake is. This article will explore all the unique hallmarks that make a lake stand out from other marine habitats and what animals might be residing in such freshwater ecosystems.
What is a Lake?
A lake is a large body of water surrounded by land.
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Lakes are bodies of water surrounded by masses of land. Unlike rivers that flow from a water source called a headwater and end up in seas, lakes are standing or slow-moving and do not have fast-moving currents. It may come as a surprise, but there are millions of lakes globally, and most of them create a magnificent view surrounded by mountain ranges or desert plains. You can find lakes on every continent in the world. They are everywhere, from seashores, plains, deserts, and mountainous terrain. Lakes have no fixed definition, and there is no single way to explain them. Yet, they have a list of significant features that can help quickly identify and differentiate them from other bodies of water.
Not all lakes share the same size or depth. Some lakes can be so large you might not even see the other side of the land, while there are lakes that are smaller compared to others. Other small lakes are called ponds, which don't have much difference from lakes, other than being relatively smaller. Lake Baikal in Russia currently holds the title as the world's deepest lake, measuring about 5,387 feet or 1.64 kilometers deep. North America's Great Lakes, including Lake Ontario, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, and Lake Michigan, measure up to 1,332 feet deep and extend from 193 to 350 miles. Although lakes vary in length, diameter, and depth, they all share the same unique characteristics that set them apart from other bodies of water.
The 5 Key Features that Define a Lake
From space, it is easy to see that the Earth's composition is two-thirds water. The world is 71% water, and 96.5% of that is made up of oceans. So what about the remaining 3.5% of all the world's waters? These remaining bodies of water are distributed into various freshwater habitats such as rivers, streams, ponds, wetlands, and lakes. Here, a whole different ecosystem lives. Only about 1.2% of the Earth's waters can be used as drinking water. The rest are locked up in ice caps, permafrost, or glaciers, while some freshwater are buried underground. There are two types of aquatic biomes in the world – the marine biome and the freshwater biome. All marine biomes have high saltwater content, such as the seas and oceans. Freshwater biomes do not entirely mean they are free of salt, but they have less or low salt content levels than oceanic masses. It is classified into three main types: lakes, rivers, and wetlands. So what attributes help distinguish a lake?
1. Lakes are inland depressions filled with water
All lakes are water-filled depressions on the surface of the earth.
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First things first, let's talk about how lakes are formed. All lakes are water-filled depressions on the surface of the earth called basins. These basins are formed in multiple ways, such as glacial imprints left through moving glaciers, abandoned parts of rivers, volcanic craters, and more. But the most common way is through changes in plate tectonics. When the Earth's crust moves and creates faults, these faults form natural basins or land depressions that are filled with water over time through rainfall or flowing streams. Lakes are characterized by an inland basin filled with water or surrounded and enclosed by land. Since they are confined to landmass, they do not flow like rivers and streams.
There are, however, open lakes where the water eventually flows to the sea. Most lakes have outlets below or above the water surface, where water is lost through the surface or underground. On the other hand, closed lakes only lose water through evaporation.
2. Lakes are standing, slow-moving bodies of water
Lakes are characterized by standing, slow-moving waters.
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Perhaps the easiest way to identify a lake is through its water movement. Lakes are considered lentic ecosystems characterized by still, standing, or slow-moving waters. Rivers and streams flow continuously from a water source down to the river's mouth connecting it to the sea. Unlike rivers, lakes are calm and do not exhibit waves or currents. Lakes also seem motionless on a windless day and only show movements if applied with outside forces like wind. On the other hand, rivers will continue flowing even without the influence of wind.
To the naked eye, it might seem that lakes are stagnant. Scientifically, they are slow-moving, and the main forces that initiate slow water movements on lakes are caused by wind stress, hydraulic gradients, and density gradients. The wind force drives the water to move within the lake.
3. Lakes have vast surface areas
Becharof Lake is a very deep lake in the southern peninsula of Alaska.
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Defining or identifying a lake gets a bit more tricky as you try to identify it by its depth. Lakes have different depth measurements. Some can be kilometers deep, while some can be walked through on foot. But one thing is for sure – lakes have wide surface areas. A lake's surface diameter helps people recognize it even from afar. All lakes have wide surfaces, and while some can be less than a meter deep, they are still lakes. Lakes average from 2 hectares or 5 acres to 8 hectares or 20 acres wide. New studies have estimated that about 4,200,000 km2 or less than 1% of the Earth's total surface area is accounted for by lakes. The four Great Lakes in the United States and Canada make up a huge ratio of this entire surface area. Small, slow-moving freshwater habitats may be mistaken as lakes, but they are more commonly classified as ponds.
4. Lakes are homes to complex ecosystems
Lakes foster complex ecosystems.
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The seas and oceans are home to many marine plants and animals, but some aquatic life can only survive in freshwater. One specific and unique characteristic of a lake is its ability to nurture complex ecosystems. Complexity in ecosystems varies as each animal species and plant is diverse. Lakes foster complex ecosystems as the animals and plants living in such habitats have varying needs and environmental conditions.
The types of fish and other marine biodiversity living in a body of water can also help determine if it is a lake or not. Lakes are suitable habitats for freshwater fish and can foster marine animals throughout the year, even in cold seasons with -40°C temperatures. The trout, for instance, is a cold-loving fish that has evolved in deep lake ecosystems. One way to classify lakes is by the fish that live in them. Fishing industries rely on the type or nature of lakes to help them determine which fish they can catch in an ecosystem. For example, lakes that have thick, muddy residues indicate an abundance of catfish.
Here is a list of fish most commonly found in lakes:
Lake sturgeon
Lake trout
Apart from specific kinds of freshwater fish, lakes are also home to many aquatic birds. Birds like flamingos are often seen on wetlands, but most freshwater birds turn to lakes as their forever home. Here is a list of freshwater birds that inhabit lakes:
Kingfishers
5. Lakes are mostly freshwater, but some can be a little salty.
Lake Superior has 10% of the world's surface freshwater.
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Most lakes are characterized by freshwater, but it doesn't mean that they don't have any salt content. All lakes have at least low saltwater content, but some have salt deposits that are much higher than others. These lakes are called saline or salt lakes. Like the largest lake, the Caspian Sea, saline lakes are landlocked and do not typically connect to the sea. Since they do not flow towards other bodies of water, the salt deposits or salt minerals coming from waters flowing into the lake stay there, therefore increasing the lake's salinity.
The most popular salt lake is the Dead Sea, which is actually a lake. It got its name from its inability to host aquatic organisms like fish, plants, or even microscopic organisms due to its incredibly salty water. The Dead Sea is eight times saltier than average seawater, and the water is so dense that you can literally float!
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Some of the most uniquely colored lakes in the world offer a kaleidoscope from chocolate brown to ebony black, blood red, cobalt blue, dark green, sparkling turquoise, and even bright bubble-gum pink!
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In the late 1890s John Muir prepared a report for Charles S. Sargent, the Harvard botanist, describing big trees he had located. On one trip along the Kings River he had found a huge `stump' that stood some forty feet in diameter five feet from the base--the largest specimen he had ever discovered. I remembered reading about Muir's snag in the late spring of 1984, when I first had occasion to visit Converse Grove, three miles south of King's River, just outside King's Canyon National Park. Those who are familiar with the Converse tragedy--the wanton destruction of thousands of Big Trees by loggers at the turn of the twentieth century--might wonder why any nature lover would go there today. It is an ecological wasteland, where stumps and shards by the thousands stand or lay in mute silence, monuments to human arrogance and greed. Yet amid the destruction there is also peace and quiet, for it is off the tourist route and few visitors pass by. To those seeking relief from the teeming tide of humanity at nearby General Grant Grove and from the fumes of auto exhaust along the main road from Fresno to King's Canyon, it is a place for contemplation.
It was burned half through. I cleared away the charred surface with an axe & tried hard to count the wood layers through a lens.
The first five feet from the outside was clear & regular & in this distance there are 1672 layers but beyond this point toward the center the wood was so contorted & interrupted by wounds that I was unable to get a sure count, thought I made out upwards of 4000 layers. Perhaps by building a high scaffold a much closer approximation to the age of this grand monument might be obtained.  .
Anxious to make a closer inspection, I parked beside the road and walked down to the tree. Nature had prepared an enchanting approach. Enveloping it on all sides like sentries guarding a deity or angels before a throne, young white firs stood, with an occasional cedar and limber pine adding to the complexity of foliage and form. The muted toot of a nuthatch greeted me as I drew closer, and an unknown warbler's song filled the air. A single scarlet cluster of Indian paintbrush offset the dark green ferns which carpeted the forest floor at the base of the snag. A green patina of moss and algae covered the first twenty feet of the scarred surface, softening the ebony char that marked the path where fires had worked their way toward the heartwood. I could not be sure whether it was Muir's snag or not, but I seemed to be approaching a historic shrine that had stood majestically for 1,000 years or more, witnessing the passing of humanity. Some time in the distant past it had died, doubtless killed by fires from lightning long before Muir or the axemen had arrived in the Basin almost a century ago.
For all its bulk and evocative imagery, what captivated me most when I first saw the tree was its great "eye", a circular orifice about two feet in diameter near the broken top of this immense obelisk, a hundred feet or more from the ground where once a limb grew laterally from the trunk. Time and weather had deepened the hole so that on the ground one could see through it to a patch of sky in the distance. The cathedral aura, enhanced by the birdsong chorus in the background, made a striking impression. I found myself thinking of the all-seeing eye, symbol of divine omnipotence and omnipresence, that hangs over the altars of many early missions and cathedrals.
I neared the base in awe, like a pilgrim at Golgotha. Shivers ran up my arms and back as I stood before it, humble and supplicant. I walked entirely around it, touching the blackened heartwood, observing the stress lines and fractures and the rings that one could still see by the thousands. To judge the girth roughly, I counted 33 steps around the perimeter, the same number I counted for the Chicago Stump, another hugh relic butchered by loggers about two miles away. Many others have stood before this huge tree. I saw graffiti of times past carved into the trunk, some with dates as early as 1895. Then I walked inside the deep black cavity hollowed out by fire in the distant past, and stood there in silent contemplation. Although right alongside the gravel road leading to the Boole Tree, a live redwood giant about three miles away, few people notice the top of this jagged landmark as they pass, and fewer still stop to inspect it. Only one car passed during the hour I spent at the site. Inside the hollow bole I instinctively cocked my ear, but the only sound was the sweet bird music in the distance. Yet I did not feel alone. The great ebony void around me seemed palpably alive with memory and mystery, as if Muir and all the mighty wilderness giants had come to be with me. I shivered again, then slowly backed outside. As I returned to my car, I looked back and saw through the eye to the clouds passing in the background making the orifice seem like a portal opening to the heavens. Even if this is not Muir's snag, I thought to myself, it is an historic and holy landscape, a fitting abode of gods and pilgrims to the wild.
John Muir, Big Trees [holograph ms., ca. 1900], in John Muir Papers, Microform edition, Reel 43, 09979.


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Equestrianship teaches real-life skills and discipline
No plans existed for a virtual show; horseback riding is a COVID-19 friendly activity
COURTESY OF HOLLIE DAHL
The team moved to a new barn during the pandemic and it was a good time to make the transition. It gave them easy access to the wheat fields.
JENAE LAXSON, Evergreen roots editor
The WSU equestrian team successfully and safely competed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The equestrian team started back in the 1980s but "kind of faded away," said Emma Spencer, member and fourth-year biology major. It was brought back in the early 2000s and has gained traction ever since.
The team was not able to compete in-person this year, but they were able to devise a plan to compete virtually, said Hollie Dahl, vice president of the equestrian team and third-year English education major.
Dahl said the team used a private Facebook group to submit recorded videos of the team members completing different courses.
There were no plans on how to host a virtual show, but it ended up working out really well, she said.
Dahl joined the team two years ago and was a horse manager before becoming vice president.
Besides the pandemic, Dahl's experience has been different this year with being an officer, as well.
"We weren't sure if we were even going to be able to have a practice season," she said. "But we knew the chances of us competing [in-person] were pretty slim."
The team was relieved they were able to do that, Dahl said. The team members wore masks during practices. Other than that, horseback riding is already almost a COVID-19 friendly activity.
The team has taken a financial hit due to the pandemic. She said they hold fundraisers with Yankee Candle, but everyone has struggled this year and candles are not a necessity.
"The university was really trying to encourage clubs to not have fees, but because we are a club that has animals relying on us to take care of them … money has been difficult."
Spencer said she has been riding horses for around 15 years and was lucky enough to have her own. She competed in barrel racing, sorted cows and was a member in 4-H.
She decided to join the equestrian team after starting at WSU during spring semester. Spencer said she knew it may be difficult to make friends, so joining the team felt like a good opportunity to meet like-minded people.
"It helped me come out of my shell as a social person," Spencer said. "I would describe myself as being shy … and it has allowed me to meet some of my best friends."
Like Spencer, Dahl also has extensive experience in the equestrian world.
Dahl has been involved with horses since she was six and has spent about 10 years competing, she said.Riding has shaped her whole life.
"It teaches you real life skills … handling disappointment, handling loss, how to be very disciplined and what I want from my life."
Dahl said all horses have their own personality and every one of them requires the rider to learn their quirks.
"Horses are stupid, they are just not functional animals," she said.
Dahl said the team did have access to a new barn built by their coach Laura Moore.
This year was actually a good time for this transition to occur, she said. Three quarters of the horses live in the barn and it is a very nice facility.
"With the new barn we have more access to the wheat fields," Dahl said. "We went on a ride in the field and just galloping … it was just awesome."
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